This was an interesting find on the subject of Core Maths. Excuse my ignorance or daftness, but this is one of those I’m not even aware existed! The problem that was posed to the students was this:
Jack used the number line below to solve 427 – 316. Find his error. Then write a letter to Jack telling him what he did right, and what he do to fix this.
What the parent did was absolutely brilliant!
What the hell is Core Math? And since when did subtraction became so complicated? Let’s just keep things simple, shall we!
Sending you a no-complication and no dealing with ridiculously stupid-stuff dusts for the week ahead!
Nothing perks up an otherwise full-on months of navigating the complex, intricate and draining world of people in real life than discovering that my labour of love in the blogging world has been bestowed by an award nomination called “Respect”. It’s a big word that; and I am extremely humbled by this recognition, especially for a small-time, bumbling blogger like me.
Created by renowned artist Rob Goldstein, this was passed on to me by one of my favourite Daddy Blogger, Eric, author of All in A Dad’s Work. He’s got lots of stories, anecdotes and random everyday musing of his life as a Dad, a husband and a teacher. Even my husband reads his stuff, and sometimes updates me on what he wrote! One of his recent random musing is asking 23 Questions to his kids – I’d love to try those questions on my own kids one of these days. But only if I could get their attention long enough to answer me!
This is what Rob says about this award:
“The “Respect” Award is my personal award for fellow bloggers who consistently reach out to other bloggers, offer support, are kind, struggle to understand differences in people, and who treat themselves and other people with kindness and respect.
You don’t have to do anything for this award.
You can choose to copy the Award Picture and give the award to the people who have earned your respect or you can do nothing.
This is my way of saying thank you. You have earned my respect.”
I am very honoured indeed, and like Eric, I like this award for its simplicity. With this recognition, I’d also like to take this opportunity to acknowledge other bloggers who are “up-there” in my respect scale for doing what they do and as stated above:
It goes without saying that , Eric himself are both up on my respect list as well, and along with lots more bloggers out there. I’m saving some award nominations which have been waaaay overdue for those whom I haven’t mentioned.
This award has been a real honour and presented a great start to November. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Both Gen and I agreed that we’ll postpone this month’s mystery munchies to a few days later. So, for the first time in a long time since I started my Fabulous Friday Flavour, there is none to feature this week.
But! With or without a recipe, I still want to talk about food; it’s only one of the few things that makes me happy! Especially since we just got back from Singapore last week and I got to re-acquaint myself with some of my favourite grubs from home. Grubs I don’t get anywhere else other than in Singapore and grubs so uniquely localised that I can’t even quite describe how they’d taste to you.
1. Kopi Kao Kosong with Egg Prata and Curry
That’s really just thick, black coffee without sugar and a typically Singapore-Indian flat fluffy, soft, flaky dough filled with egg and fried with a dollop of ghee. Taste so, so good with curry, and nothing more than breakfast food. Usually found in an Indian stall in a neighbourhood coffee shop. Good ole comfort food. Even the kids love it – but without the curry.
2. BK’s Rendang Burger
Only in Singapore, I believe, do they have such a thing called Rendang Burger because we Singaporeans are obsessed with rendang – a dish usually slow-cooked and uses a copious amount of different spices with coconut that gives out a complex and unique taste. And, I believe, only in Burger King do they make such a wonderful tasty burger with it. It’s junk, I know but with the distinctive rendang sauce spread across the juicy flame-grilled patties, topped with diced onions and slapped in between soft sesame buns, this junk food puts other burgers to shame. And that’s according to me.
I can’t help myself. I can’t say no to a rendang burger.
3. MCD’s Samurai Burger
Credit: McDonald’s Website
Don’t laugh. It really is called the Samurai Burger and this one made a come-back to their menu recently. It’s a beef patty burger soaked in teriyaki sauce, topped with mayo and lettuce. So, so, so good! Best eaten with it’s seaweed shaker fries.
Believe it or not, it has been aaaaages since I last sinked my teeth into one; I reckon, that must have been more than a decade ago. I remember this burger very well, too as I used to be so addicted to this that I would have it for lunch every day. I could have been all Samurai-ed out, but I didn’t because because MCD usually only introduced the burger for a fixed period of time and then they took it off the menu for a long, long while. I’m glad I was back in Singapore at just the right time to re-acquaint with food from my younger days!
Burgers are what I call junk food, and really, I don’t eat them often. Swear to God. In fact, I probably only down a burger maybe once every 6 months. For these 2 burgers, though, my knees crumbled and my will, completely weakened.
